It's was my first stream today and it kinda ruined my day

So I had at least 5 people come in and they were so polite. A few of them asked how I'm doing, I answered all of them and no one replied. I later found out that my stream was lagging and they couldn't have heard what I said. I saw notifications of them following but there were 0 followers after I ended stream. I think the culprit was recording while streaming in OBS but are there other possible reason? I have a 6700XT, Ryzen 5 3600 and 32gb ram. My internet is 300mpbs at worst. Sorry this was my first time streaming and I'm figuring it out on my own with youtube. One person talked to me at least 3 times and seemed like a fun person, that ruined my day. It was also my bad that I didn't monitor the stream and only looked at obs.